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“Do what you love and do it often.”
Lovely greeting cards by artist Sean McCabe, based on the famous Holstee Manifesto – one of five essential manifestos for the creative life.
Hand-rolled through a letterpress machine and pressed onto paper derived from 50% elephant poo and 50% recycled paper, wholly biodegradable. 

“Do what you love and do it often.”

Lovely greeting cards by artist Sean McCabe, based on the famous Holstee Manifesto – one of five essential manifestos for the creative life.

Hand-rolled through a letterpress machine and pressed onto paper derived from 50% elephant poo and 50% recycled paper, wholly biodegradable. 

Creative environmental nonprofit Do The Green Thing has partnered with 23 celebrated artists and designers to create a poster a day, for 23 consecutive days, until Earth Hour 2013. All posters are available as prints, with proceeds benefiting the DTGT charity.
Pair this one, by Tom Uglow, with a case for the walkable city.

Creative environmental nonprofit Do The Green Thing has partnered with 23 celebrated artists and designers to create a poster a day, for 23 consecutive days, until Earth Hour 2013. All posters are available as prints, with proceeds benefiting the DTGT charity.

Pair this one, by Tom Uglow, with a case for the walkable city.

The science is real. Not a single scientific body in the world disputes it.

Al Gore launches Reality Drop at TED 2013, using social game dynamics to promote scientific truth and dispel climate change denial.

How green are your reading habits, really?

How green are your reading habits, really?

National Geographic and the World Wildlife Fund partner on this pause-giving motion graphics piece illustrating hidden energy waste through the case of your favorite cotton t-shirt

( The Kid Should See This)

Take, for instance, product manufacturing. A Styrofoam cup will be used once for about four or five minutes before being thrown away. The turnover time of the industry that purchases that cup is going to be a couple weeks or a couple months, at most. Those are the time scales that that object is created for. However, the refuse of that Styrofoam cup will last for millions of years, because it’s not biodegradable. What does it mean to live at a historical moment in which the time scales that we operate on are so radically out of touch with the time scales of the temporal footprint of the things we make?
A conversation with artist Trevor Paglen, who is building humanity’s longest-lasting cultural artifact.

Nature took tens of millions of years to make petroleum, but we’ve used up the best of it in less than 200.

Fantastic motion graphics animation on the truth about peak oil and fracking.

( Quipsologies)

Three words: Circuit board cufflinks. Made from actual upcycled gadgets. 

Three words: Circuit board cufflinks. Made from actual upcycled gadgets. 

What the humanity’s ecological footprint would be like if Earth’s 7 billion people lived like various countries. Also see what 7 billion actually looks like.
(↬ The Dish)

What the humanity’s ecological footprint would be like if Earth’s 7 billion people lived like various countries. Also see what 7 billion actually looks like.

( The Dish)

In the face of persistent drought and repeated power outages, this wonderfully animated PSA reminds Californians to turn their lights off.

( Quipsologies)

New environmental PSA posters from Shepard Fairey’s studio, produced for nonprofit Keep A Breast, encourage young people to be more mindful of the toxic substances in their daily lives in an effort to reduce the impact of environmental diseases. 

Artist Tim Delger makes furniture from reclaimed highway signage.

Wonderful animated short to raise awareness about overfishing.

Chances are, you’ve been doing it wrong: how to use a single paper towel to dry your hands.

The Lexicon of Sustainability – lovely multimedia project based on a simple premise: people can’t be expected to live more sustainable lives if they don’t even know the most basic terms and principles that define sustainability.

The Lexicon of Sustainability – lovely multimedia project based on a simple premise: people can’t be expected to live more sustainable lives if they don’t even know the most basic terms and principles that define sustainability.